BBC coverage was poor, camera angles compared to sky were well off. team played ok, a win is a win.

At the point of being unpopular, when I got back from the match I watched it again on telly, I thought Childs performance wasn't as bad as I thought it was live at the match, where i confess I was caught up in the emotion, singing that he wasn't fit to be a referee with he rest. All refs make mistakes, it goes with the job, however his style of being too whistley causes him trouble when he misses some obvious infringements. He should just try and let the game flow a little more and he may prove a little less hated.

As with the previous two posters, when I watched it back, I didn't think the reffing looked as bad as at the game, but I think it was mostly due to the BBC team not pointing out the mistakes and then showing endless replays like you get on Sky. Prior to the Purtell no try decision there was, from where I was sitting at least, a clear knock on, but there was barely a mention of it on the TV.

Regarding the refereeing standard ,maybe one of the problems is that there are not enough available top class refs. employed by the RFL so there is no competition at games & they are guaranteed to get a match to referee every week. Maybe the RFL should get the touch judges more actively involved in decision making ,maybe call them referee's assistants like in football.

Tyke McCarthy's 'knock on' while facing his own posts was the worst of his many cock ups.
Hill's sin binning was due to the Bradford players poor ball security and Childs' having aready made up his mind that one of ours was having a rest at the next offence. Hope its a long time before we have to suffer this bloke again.

i agree! however i turned up with my 11 year old, got his leg caught in seat belt getting out the back of my mates car, torn ligaments and a swolen knee (and a lot of swearing for a 11 year old)resulted in me catching the game on TV despite having 2 tickets for the game!

and he's off school now! little sod!